Quote Originally Posted by Grinenshire View Post
PS: I'd be glad if my hard-drives would live 3-4 years. The amount of junk they stick into high-end laptops is amazing. And yeah, Norway. I'm still recovering from the sight of a beer costing 6 Euro per bottle*faint*.
Alcohol taxes are sky-high here indeed. Worse than other goods, compared to other countries. I never buy beer at bars and pubs anyway, so it doesn't bother me a lot. I get the occasional cider a few times a week, that's enough for me :p.

While the odd harddrive in a desktop system might die after a year (probably because of a manufacturing fault), I am pretty sure the average is much longer for desktop systems. For one, they're not usually spinning 24/7, and even if they did, there would be far less reads and writes than for a server harddrive.